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Robinson a no show in the 1st half…..

We have missed too many open shots. Not just 3’s, but also bunnies too.

If we can’t score more efficiently, we are done tonight. We don’t have anyone beside Butler that can get around Duke’s denial defense. Robinson and Oweh have to give us more of that. Heck, Williams has been our best driver.

I realize it’s early in the year, but I would have thought our experienced kids would be ready to prove themselves.
 
Pope gonna need to go get a few alphas in the future if we are gonna get to where we want to go. He put together the best roster he could under tough circumstances. We are gonna struggle with the top teams this year if we dont shoot great.

They’re coming, just hold on this year.😉😉
 
What I see is they started playing more physical than us and it just got in our heads and shut us down. We were winning the game of basketball. Then we got rattled. Then Duke started killing us in the paint on top of that so we haven’t gotten up yet.

I still kind of like our depth with all these fouls adding up on both sides. But we gotta still be in the game long enough for that to matter.
 
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We have also been half assing plays, which is shocking. Butler going after that tipped ball at halfcourt with a jog effort while Foster came diving in to get it was so frustrating. Oweh is non-chalant on some
Plays too. Can’t imagine pope won’t address that but in a game like this he really shouldn’t have to.
 
We have missed too many open shots. Not just 3’s, but also bunnies too.

If we can’t score more efficiently, we are done tonight. We don’t have anyone beside Butler that can get around Duke’s denial defense. Robinson and Oweh have to give us more of that. Heck, Williams has been our best driver.

I realize it’s early in the year, but I would have thought our experienced kids would be ready to prove themselves.
Part of it is the guy taking the shot . And with Shaq Jr in the middle, other players can pressure the hell out of our guys with little fear of our guys going to the rim .
 
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Robinson would be a great supplementary player. He's the perfect #2 scorer. But he's not a go-to scorer. Never has been. He's just not physical enough. That's not a knock. It's just that he's more of a finesse guy.

We all knew this was a 21 to 23 win UK team, with 25 probably being a ceiling. Duke blitzing us right now isn't really a surprise. This is Scheyer's year to do some damage (finally).
 
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Okay. He had a poor offensive game. He still played hard. We got the W.
If you tell me before the game that he lays an egg on offense, then it’s hard to imagine a win. I doubt he has many games without a fg. Good things are coming.
 
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Scary to think what this team's potential could be if Jaxson was anywhere remotely close to how he has played so far and at BYU that this team won while he did not have a great game.
 
Pretty awesome that we played SO poorly in the 1st half and still won. Our guys might have been tight. I'll give them all a pass, because that was a tough game and they had to do it playing 5v8 to boot.

We have to remember that when UK plays a top25 team, not every player is going to have a good game. Some of these guys will have tough match ups and some of our guys just won't play well. We just need some of our guys to be on.. and tonight guys like Carr and Oweh were on.
 
He played terribly but at the end of the game he played good defense and stuck with it. Glad he didn’t collapse.
 
Duke's defense in the 1st half had our guys rattled but Pope changed the way we played in the 2nd half. UK took it to Duke.
 
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